Bombyx Linnaeus 1758
Description
I. Bombyx Linnaeus, 1758 (FIGURES 1–3)
Bombyx Linnaeus, 1758, Systema Naturae 1: 495. Type species: Phalaena (Bombyx) mori Linnaeus, 1758, Systema Naturae, 1: 499, by subsequent designation in Opin. Decl. int. Commn zool. Nom. 1957, 15: 254 (originally proposed as a subgenus of Phalaena Linnaeus, 1758).
Bumbyx: Fabricius, 1777, Genera Insect: 277. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Bombix: Mabille, 1884, in Rochebrune, Bull. Soc. philomath. Paris, 8 (7): 31. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Theophila Moore, 1862, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (4): 315. Type species: Bombyx bengalensis Moore, 1862, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1 (4): 315, by subsequent designation by Kirby, 1892, Syn. Cat. Lepid. Het., 1: 719.
Diagnosis. Easily distinguished based on the following characters: forewing with M1 and Rs on a common stem; outer margin below apex obviously concave; uncus apically bifurcate with rounded lobes; gnathos a broadly rounded-triangular lobe, valva narrow and long.
Distribution. South-East Asia, with one domestic species now distributed worldwide.
Remarks. The genus consists of six species, including the wild relative of the cultivated silkworm, B. mori. Originally proposed as a subgenus of Phalaena Linnaeus, 1758, in which many species of numerous other families, particularly Noctuidae were included (Nye, 1975), the International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature Used its plenary powers to place Bombyx on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with “Name number 1056” as the zoological number (Fletcher & Nye, 1982; Beccaloni et al., 2003). Moore (1862) established the genus Theophila with five included species. Fletcher & Nye (1982) synonymized Theophila with Bombyx based on its type species Bombyx bengalensis Moore, 1862 being a junior synonym of B. huttoni Westwood, 1847 (Beccaloni et al., 2003). In the present paper, four Bombyx species are recorded from China (Map 1).
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Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Bombycidae
- Genus
- Bombyx
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Linnaeus
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- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Bombyx Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Wang, Wang, Zolotuhin, Hirowatari, Wu & Huang, 2015
References
- Linnaeus, C. (1758) Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio Decima, Reformata, Holmiae, 824 pp.
- Fabricius, J. C. (1777) Genera insectorum eorumque characteres naturales secundum numerum, figuram, situm et proportionem omnium partium oris adjecta mantissa specierum nuper detectarum. Bartsch, Chilonii, 310 pp. [in Latin]
- Mabille, J. (1884) Gen. Entomopsis and Rochebrune. Bulletin de la Societe Philomathique de Paris, 8 (7), 21 - 124.
- Kirby, W. F. (1844 - 1912) A synonymic catalogue of Lepidoptera Heterocera: Vol. 1. Sphinges and bombyces. Gurney & Jackson, London, 951 pp. [1892]
- Fletcher, D. S. & Nye, I. W. B. (1982) The Generic names of Moths of the World 4. Bombycoidea, Castnioidea, Cossoidea, Mimallonoidea, Sesioidea, Sphingoidea, Zygaenoidea. British Museum (Natural History), London, xiv + 192 pp.
- Beccaloni, G. W., Scoble, M. J., Robinson, G. S. & Pitkin, B. (2003) The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London. Availabel from: http: // www. nhm. ac. uk / research-curation / research / projects / lepindex / (accessed 6 February 2015)
- Westwood, J. O. (1847 [1848]) The cabinet of oriental entomology: being a selection of some of the rarer and more beautiful species of insects, natives of India and the adjacent islands, the greater portion of which are now for the first time discribed and figured. William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, 213 pp.